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Dr. Gerhard Thiele participated as a mission specialist on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) on board STS-99, February 11–22, 2000. The mission goal was the three-dimensional digital mapping of the Earth’s surface. This chapter contains Dr. Thiele’s own account of his space mission.
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Thiele, G., Norberg, C. (2013). A new image of Earth: The flight of European astronaut Gerhard Thiele on STS-99 in 2000. In: Norberg, C. (eds) Human Spaceflight and Exploration. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23725-6_8
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